Keynote 1: Dave Copps - CEO, Worlds, Inc.

Dave is known internationally as a futurist, technologist and visionary on the role that emerging technologies will play in transforming markets and the world. Dave has founded, launched and sold two technology companies that have placed machine learning and artificial intelligence in hundreds of companies around the world. In 2017 Dave was recognized as Emerging Company CEO of the Year in Texas while serving as CEO of Brainspace Corporation which was acquired by Cyxtera in 2017. Dave received his BA from the University of North Texas. He is an active member of many impactful communities, including: The Aspen Institute's Round table on AI, Peter Diamandis' Abundance360 community, Xprize Visioneer, US Governments's Council for Competitiveness focused on Disruptive Technologies and a frequent speaker at MIT's EmTech conferences as well as universities and technology incubators all over the world.